Tim Clifford
Tim Clifford has been a sub-editor with IPC and the Daily Express, as well as a contributor to Rock's Backpages for the past three years. He lives in Stockwell, London.
19 articles
List of articles in the library
The Beach Boys, Brian Wilson: Brian Wilson: Royal Festival Hall, London
Live Review by Tim Clifford, Rock's Backpages, February 2002
NOT ONLY did my spine tingle during the third night of Brian Wilson's sell-out four-night stand in London, but I also cried with joy. The ...
David Holmes: Ocean's 11 original soundtrack (Warner Sunset)
Review by Tim Clifford, Rock's Backpages, February 2002
WHEN IT COMES to the soundtrack too often a compilation of old tunes represents the limit of Hollywood ambitions. Director Steven Soderbergh and DJ David ...
Norah Jones: Come Away With Me (EMI Capitol)
Review by Tim Clifford, Rock's Backpages, February 2002
NORAH JONES may not be up there with Wolf J Flywheel in the memorable moniker stakes, but mark it well. Produced by Arif Mardin, this ...
Quincy Jones: Q - The Autobiography Of… (Hodder & Stoughton)
Review by Tim Clifford, Rock's Backpages, February 2002
WHAT AN extraordinary life the multi-talented Mr Jones has led. He's worked with everyone from Count Basie to Melle Mel, Frank Sinatra to Michael Jackson ...
Sam Moore: Plenty Good Lovin’ (Swing Café)
Review by Tim Clifford, Rock's Backpages, February 2002
TOO OFTEN great "lost" albums went AWOL for a very good reason they werent very good. But 30 seconds into what should have been ...
KISS: Gene Simmons: Kiss and Make-up - The Autobiography of Gene Simmons (Century)
Review by Tim Clifford, Rock's Backpages, March 2002
THEY WANTED to dress like comic-book superheroes and write football-terrace anthems like Slade. Out of such dumb genius, vast fortunes are made. Kiss were also ...
Indigo Girls: Become You (Epic)
Review by Tim Clifford, Rock's Backpages, March 2002
STEPPING BACK from the rockier edge of their last two albums, the Indigo Girls have opted for a rootsier feel on their latest offering. Its ...
Bob Dylan, Joan Baez: David Hajdu: Positively Fourth Street (Bloomsbury)
Review by Tim Clifford, Rock's Backpages, April 2002
NOW OUT in paperback, this engrossing account of the intertwined lives of Bob Dylan, Joan Baez, Mimi Baez Fariña and Richard Fariña from the late ...
The Be Good Tanyas: Borderline, London, 19th March
Live Review by Tim Clifford, Rock's Backpages, April 2002
TO DISPLAY delight at making music might sound an obvious and easy thing to do. This show by the Canadian trio of Frazey Ford, Samantha ...
Various Artists: Electric (Telstar)
Review by Tim Clifford, Rock's Backpages, April 2002
THE OLDEST track on this 34-track compilation dates from 1974 and Sparks 'This Town Aint Big Enough For The Both of Us' still sounds ...
John Hammond and his Wicked Grin Band: The Borderline, London, 27th April
Live Review by Tim Clifford, Rock's Backpages, May 2002
BY INJECTING a dose of blues into a collection of Tom Waits tunes, John Hammond created his most satisfying and critically acclaimed album in years, ...
Bob Dylan: Revisiting Dylan's Highway
Book Review by Tim Clifford, Rock's Backpages, May 2002
Down the Highway: The Life of Bob Dylan (Black Swan)Isis: A Bob Dylan Anthology, edited by Derek Barker (Helter Skelter) ...
Neil Young: Brixton Academy, London, 21st May
Live Review by Tim Clifford, Rock's Backpages, June 2002
NEIL YOUNG'S in a pretty unassailable position these days: revered by everyone from fresh-faced teens to grizzled pensioners of the Woodstock generation, and free to ...
Muddy Waters: Robert Gordon: Can't Be Satisfied: The Life and Times of Muddy Waters (Jonathan Cape)
Review by Tim Clifford, Rock's Backpages, September 2002
MUDDY WATERS STANDING at a mike hollering "Im a man", giving those three simple words a world of meaning invitation, warning, primal statement and ...
Review by Tim Clifford, Rock's Backpages, November 2002
STEVE EARLES life is a gift for biographers, a rock'n'roll fuck-up who came back from the dead with his intelligence and integrity intact. Most ...
Paul Du Noyer : Liverpool - Wondrous Place (Virgin Books)
Review by Tim Clifford, Rock's Backpages, November 2002
THE FORMER EDITOR of Q magazine 's history of music in Liverpool hangs his tale on three venues the Cavern, Eric's and Cream. In ...
David Olney: Borderline, London
Live Review by Tim Clifford, Rock's Backpages, 1 October 2003
THE QUALITY OF his writing has earned him namechecks from the late Townes Van Zandt and Steve Earle, and the likes of Emmylou Harris and ...
Johnny Dowd: The Spitz, London
Live Review by Tim Clifford, Rock's Backpages, 13 November 2003
BECAUSE THEY SHARE a dark gothic sensibility and a preoccupation with biblical notions of sin, Johnny Dowd is often bracketed with Nick Cave. ...
Music Go Music: ICA, London, 22 September 2009
Live Review by Tim Clifford, Rock's Backpages, September 2009
A FIVE-FOOT-TALL hourglass stood on stage, its sands unmoving, when Music Go Music made their London debut at the ICA last night. The prop seemed ...
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